[House  of  Representatives— Secret  Session.] 

HOUSE  OF  R^RESENTATIVES.  Dec.  31,  1863 —Re^d  first 
and  second  times,  postponed,  oplered  to  l>e  printed,  and  made  the 
special  onler  for  Monday  next,  and  frcm  chj  to  clay. 

[By  Mr.  Baldwin,  from  the  Special  Committee  on  the  Currency.] 


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To  be  entitled  An  Act  to  organize  the  Treasury  Note  Bureau. 

1  Section  1.     The    Congress  of  the  Confederate   States  of  America 

2  do  enact,  That  another  bureau  shall  be  organized  in  the  Treasury 

3  Department,  to  be  known  as  the  Treasury  Note  Bureau,  which 

4  shall  have  charge  of  the   engraving,  printing,  and  preparing  of 
a  treasury  notes  and  bonds,  and  of  everything  inf'dental  thereto. 

1  Sec  2.   A  chief  of  the  said  bureau   shall  be  appointed  by  the 

2  President,  by  and  with  the  advice   and  consent  of  the   Senate, 

3  with  the  same  salary  as  the  other  heads  of  bureaus  in  the  said 

4  department,  whose  duty  it  shall  be    to  provide   the  materials 

5  necessary  for  every  i-sue  of  notes  or  bonds,  and  to  cause  the  said 

6  notes  and  bonds  to  be  engraved,  printed,  and  prepared  for  issue, 

7  and  to  sup^rinten  1  and  have  in  charge  all-  the  clerks  employ j^d  in 

8  and  about  the  said  bureau,  under  the  direction  and  control  of  the 

9  Secretary  of  the  Treasury. 

1  Sec.  3.  The  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  may  appoint  a  chief 


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2  clerk  of  the  said  bureau  to  reside  at  Columbia  during  such  time 

3  as   the   engraving  and  printing  may  be  conducted  there,   and 

4  another  chief  clerk    at    Richmond,  also  two  messengers  and  as 

5  many  clerks,  male  and  female,  as  may  be  necessary  to  conduct 

6  the  business  of  the  bureau.     The  chief  clerk  at  Columbia  shall 

7  receive  a  salary  of  $2,500,   and  the  other  clerks  and  the   mes- 

8  sengers  shall  receive  the  same  salaries  as  are  provided  by  law 

9  for  the  clerks  of  the  same  grade  at  Richmond. 

1  Sec.  4.  The  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  shall  establish  regula- 

2  tions  for  the  government  and  management  of  the  said  bureau  and 

3  for  securing  such  safeguards  against  counterfeit  notes,  bonds, 

4  or  coupons,  as  he  may  deem  expedient. 


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